Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10
WACO.
Charged with Attempt to Rape-A Full
Pardon Granted-Educational

Charged with Attempt to Rape-A Full
Pardon Granted-Educational
Special to the Gazette
WACO, TEX, June 9.-M. B. Estes, who
drives milk wagon, filed a complaint
this morning before magistrate charg-
ing w. A. Snodgrass with an assault with
intent to commit rape. The woman in the
case is the wife Of complainant. In his
statement to Justice Makeig Estes says
the assault was made in South Waco on
Tuesday evening Just after dark. His
wife came up town to get some medicine
and as she did not return home as early
as he expected he started to meet her
and came up just in time to catch Snod-
grass making the assault. Estes says
his wife screamed out and he ran up and
knocked Snodgrass down, but the latter
jumped up and ran away. Although this
happened Tuesday night Estes did
not file the complaint until to-day, and
gives as q reason that he was waiting to
find Snodgrass. He also states that his
wife came down on the car with Snod-
grass, and thst he insisted on seeing her
home. That she objected, but ne fol-
lowed her; when Snodgrass took hold of
her arm she screamed out and tore her
sleeve in trying to free herself from his
grasp.
When Estes saw Snodgrass this morn
ing he took after and chased him for
several blocks around the business por-
ton of the city. Finally Snodgrass took
refuge in the upper story of the court
house, where Estes left him. Sheriff
Harris found Snodgrass there and took
him to the jail.
A GAZETTE reporter saw Snodgrass in
the jail and he tells very different tale
from that which Estes relates. He said
he came up town on Tuesday night, to
express q Valise to Marlin, and when the
street car, which he was OF, reached the
corner of Franklin ana Fourth streets, q
woman whom he had never seen before
got on the car. HIS first impression was
that she was drunk, and she at once COM
menced talking to him. He got of at
the Texas Express Office and expressed
his valise, and when he got on other car
to 20 home he found the same woman
seated in the Tear end She again
opened q conversation with him, and
when they reached the street
car stables she said her husband
would be uneasy about her, and
asked him to accompany her home. Snod-
grass said he was in his shirt.sleeves and
did not like to be seen going along the
streets with lady unless he VS. dressed
up, but she insisted on his going along
and he went. He says he had
hold of the woman's arm when
her husband came upon them, but he
took it to keep her from falling down.
That Estes said that the woman was his
wife and attempted to strike him, but he
released her and walked away. He fur
ther stated that Estes drew pistol on
him this morning, and that is why he ran
from him.
Gov. Ross has issued q full pardon to
Charles L. AdamsOn, convicted last week
of forging and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary. Adamson was released
to-day and at once got a job of setting
type on one of the local daily newspapers.
He came from CorsICana to Waco drunk,
got to gambling and forged a check on
his eX-employer in Corsicane for S25, to
raise the wind. He was drunk when ne
committed the crime.
Hon. Leslie Wsggoner, chairman of
faculty Of the University of Texas, de-
livered the annual literary address to-
night to the graduating class of the city
public schools. 1t was g finished and
scholarly Grafton, listened to by an i'm
mense audience. The public school eX-
ercises closed to-day. Tomorrow the
certificates of promotion to higher grades
will be awarded, and over 1000 children
set az liberty unit autumn